You appear to be using a RewriteRule with a fully-qualified URL as the replacement pattern. This won't work.
If you want a redirect, then you need a RedirectRule (using the latest 1.2.15 release).

If you have the latest release, then you will see in your logfile warnings and/or errors associated to your rules. You haven't included the relevant section of the logfile that documents the parsing of the ini-file. But if you look in your logfile, you should
see these warnings or errors.

Did you verify that there were WARNING or ERROR statements in the log file with your original rules?
Did you verify that there are no WARNING or ERROR statements in the log file with the modified rules?

In all cases, the first thing to check is that your ini file is valid.
There is a tool in the IIRF download to help do this:
TestParse.exe